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"XU "
First Act.
Film production of "XU" (18 min) directed by Johannes Birringer for the new prolog to the opera "Ensaio sobre a cegueïra" (in progress)
with solo choreography by Wan Su (Beijing)
& completed during the residency-lab
"VideoDance and DanceTechnology"
BEIJING
DANCE ACADEMY (China)
October 17 - November 7, 2004
This
multimedia performance and technology lab is designed to explore the multimedia
communications and expressions in contemporary dance and choreography. It is arranged
for participants from the Beijing Dance Academy and other interested practitioners
and theorists; special emphasis will be given to the exploration of new practices
that challenge the relations between cultural and formal expressions, deeply embedded
techniques and unstable or emergent technologiesResearch in the studio examines
new digital processes of performance composition with digital video/audio, live
interactive systems, live processing and remixing, and the use of digital projections
in performance.
Areas
of training:
--- Physical Camera: creation of video dance and video-dance projection
video
editing and composition/choreography for the camera
--- technological performance
process (sampling, editing, processing, reprocessing, multi media integration
in dance/performance)
--- interactivity and responsive dance environments (design,
live/virtual interfaces, MIDI activity, telematic transmissions)
Objective:
This
Workshop focuses on experimentation that seeks to explore new spatial-temporal
relations and possibilities for dance and dancing with camera/film technologies
and real time processing software, aiming at new dimensions of visual, sensory
or kinetic experience in dance. The lab also explores various aspects of the cultural
relations and assumptions that "control" techniques, methods of choreography
and mediation, and perceptional and cognitive processes.
The lab is rehearsal
and production-oriented, but also includes space for discussion and reflection.
A public rehearsal-performance,
screening or installation/ exhibition of the materials that have been developed
by the participants will conclude the process. The public is invited.
In the course of the lab, a documentary film will be created. For more information on the lab's concluding public screening, click here
Organizer:
Dr Zhang, Director, Beijing Dance Academy
Project leader: Johannes Birringer
For more information on dance technology and performance technology workshops offered by AlienNation, click here.